Using the 1966 surfing documentary ‘The Endless Summer’ as a metaphor Gyonata Bonvicini brought together a group of young international artists. The movie by Bruce Brown, which follows two surfers around the globe in their quest for a perfect wave, became synonymous with hardcore surfing, youthful freedom and nomadic attitude. In the same way, this group of artists uses a series of signs where different languages and cultures are intertwined in a continuous redefinition of the concept of form. In working with vernacular aesthetics, all the artists play on the borderline between the staged and the un-staged; the action or the event, inducing their audience into a position of uncertainty. Despite their varied cultural backgrounds, the artists’ work shares the ambiguity of apparent beauty laced with an ironic subversion; the often attractive and skilfully rendered artwork at second sight reveals an insurgent edge.

The Endless Summer offers a turbulent view, where no phenomenon can be seen to develop in a simple linear, progressive or hierarchical manner; building chaos into forms supposed to be stable. All their different praxis and attitudes are related to the concept of “abstract matter”, which rather than being constituted in fixed entities, is made up of movements, of endless crossing and re-crossing of lines of stratification. It represents a living organism, a fluid network of signs, the matrix and result of a series of codes in which each artist inserts his own.

Born 1975 Hampton, VA
Lives in Brooklyn, New York

Education

1995–1998 BFA, Ohio State University

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006

Corvi-Mora, London

2005

Art Rock, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, Rockefeller Center, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

2005

Project Gallery, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York
Lesser New York, FIA Backstrom Production, New York
Greater New York 2005, P.S.I, New York

Born 1972, Berkeley, California
Lives and works in New York

Education

1998–2000 MFA, Carnegie Mellon University
1992–1995 BA, University of California at Davis

2005

Model Modernism, Artist Space, New York
Parallel Life, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Wednesday Calls the Future, National Arts Center, Tbilissi
In the poem about love the word love does not appear, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow

Born 1972, Boston MA
Lives and works in Brooklyn

Education

2003–2005 MFA, Columbia University, New York
1993–1996 BFA, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston